2023 NHL Playoffs Around the League

[Richie Daggers Crime]

Then it doesn't make sense to suggest they shouldn't have sold.

They also were well out of it near the deadline. Behind Detroit and Buffalo.

 

[doublechili]

They also were well out of it near the deadline. Behind Detroit and Buffalo.

Your post inspired me to go to the FLA board and check out their "2022-23 trade speculation" thread right before the trade deadline (2/27-ish). Highly entertaining! Here's a sample, and not a lone outlier either:

As much as I hate to say it we should be sellers at the deadline. I'm not saying trade everyone but we should be getting assets back to retool for next year and beyond. We aren't making the playoffs. Get some young players and or high draft picks and go back to the drawing board in the Summer.

 

[The Real JT]

Your post inspired me to go to the FLA board and check out their "2022-23 trade speculation" thread right before the trade deadline (2/27-ish). Highly entertaining! Here's a sample, and not a lone outlier either:

As much as I hate to say it we should be sellers at the deadline. I'm not saying trade everyone but we should be getting assets back to retool for next year and beyond. We aren't making the playoffs. Get some young players and or high draft picks and go back to the drawing board in the Summer.

Entertaining yes, but wasn’t it a foregone conclusion that a message board filled with fans of a bubble team would have opinions like that?

As things have played out I still feel comfortable that I got this one right.

Hey a blind squirrel….

 

[Lek]

Your post inspired me to go to the FLA board and check out their "2022-23 trade speculation" thread right before the trade deadline (2/27-ish). Highly entertaining! Here's a sample, and not a lone outlier either:

As much as I hate to say it we should be sellers at the deadline. I'm not saying trade everyone but we should be getting assets back to retool for next year and beyond. We aren't making the playoffs. Get some young players and or high draft picks and go back to the drawing board in the Summer.

...and that...is why we here are not GM's

 

[doublechili]

Entertaining yes, but wasn’t it a foregone conclusion that a message board filled with fans of a bubble team would have opinions like that?

As things have played out I still feel comfortable that I got this one right.

Hey a blind squirrel….

That's kind of the point that makes it funny. Fans of every team complain and say the sky is falling. In a 32 team league, fans of 31 of them will be "right" if you're talking about winning the Cup. And 28 of 32 will be "right" if you mean the proverbial "winning more than a round or two". With those odds, being "right" isn't that hard. So, it's funny to see people saying the same things you see on 32 boards, but in this case they're "wrong".

 

[eoin92]

That's kind of the point that makes it funny. Fans of every team complain and say the sky is falling. In a 32 team league, fans of 31 of them will be "right" if you're talking about winning the Cup. And 28 of 32 will be "right" if you mean the proverbial "winning more than a round or two". With those odds, being "right" isn't that hard. So, it's funny to see people saying the same things you see on 32 boards, but in this case they're "wrong".

You can’t forget the 3 teams that had the parade routes mapped out. They were also wrong.

 

[Bones45]

Memorial Day weekend . Puckshoot and grill! Enjoy everyone

 

[Big L]

Spring hockey, grill and chill

 

[doublechili]

All other things being equal, does CAR root for VGK tonight so they don't get rusty? Or do they take the extra time off and let these guys beat each other up? Probably the latter.

 

[Big L]

All other things being equal, does CAR root for VGK tonight so they don't get rusty? Or do they take the extra time off and let these guys beat each other up? Probably the latter.

I think CAR has plenty of extra time off and can chip the rust off in October.

 

[doublechili]

I think CAR has plenty of extra time off and can chip the rust off in October.

Yeah, not sure what the old cerebral cortex was doing there.

Like I was saying, I wonder what FLA is thinking now?

 

[Lek]

Yeah, not sure what the old cerebral cortex was doing there.

Like I was saying, I wonder what FLA is thinking now?

One more game might not be a bad thing (6 game series)...but this going 7 is not somehting i would want to see if i am Florida.

 

[Big L]

I don’t think it matters - finals start on June 3 regardless if DAL/VGK goes 7 or not. FLA is waiting to play no matter what happens.

 

[doublechili]

I don’t think it matters - finals start on June 3 regardless if DAL/VGK goes 7 or not. FLA is waiting to play no matter what happens.

I think that's correct now that DAL won last night. The finals will start on 6/3 now no matter what. If VGK won last night I believe the finals would have started on 5/31.

When I made my original "CAR" post before the game was decided last night, there was a swing of 3 days still. So FLA will now be working on a 9 day rest going into game 1 of the finals (rather than 6 days if VGK won last night). The Isles had a 10 game rest going into the CAR series in 2019, and that was not a good thing.

 

[Lek]

I don’t think it matters - finals start on June 3 regardless if DAL/VGK goes 7 or not. FLA is waiting to play no matter what happens.

if that is the case, then you want it to go 7 if you are Florida, though.....i think, if correct, we swept Pitt, got swept by Carolina, who swept us only to be swept....hmmmm....

 

[CupHolders]

Why must the NHL start the season a week or so into October? Couldn’t they just shift things forward a bit so the Stanley Cup could be wrapped up by Memorial Day?

Playing for the Stanley Cup while beaches are opening up… just seems a little un-winter sportish.

Does anyone know if there has ever been some reasoning given for that?

 

[leeroggy]

Why must the NHL start the season a week or so into October? Couldn’t they just shift things forward a bit so the Stanley Cup could be wrapped up by Memorial Day?

Playing for the Stanley Cup while beaches are opening up… just seems a little un-winter sportish.

Does anyone know if there has ever been some reasoning given for that?

Why is that important?

Panther fans go to the beach ALL SEASON LONG . . .

 

[CupHolders]

Why is that important?

Panther fans go to the beach ALL SEASON LONG . . .

True, but it still an anathema in my book!


But in all seriousness, start the NHL season like a school year… after Labor Day camp opens. Last week of September start the regular season, wrap it up by the end of May (if not Memorial Day).

 

[Lek]

But in all seriousness, start the NHL season like a school year… after Labor Day camp opens. Last week of September start the regular season, wrap it up by the end of May (if not Memorial Day).

I agree whole-heartedly. No reason playoffs should extend past Memorial day. If finals go 7 games we are close to being into the third week of June...and no reason not to start the season earlier.

Though still think it needs to start even earlier......Start the regular season within the first 10 days of September as is it is now that in October.

 

[MJF]

Why must the NHL start the season a week or so into October? Couldn’t they just shift things forward a bit so the Stanley Cup could be wrapped up by Memorial Day?

Playing for the Stanley Cup while beaches are opening up… just seems a little un-winter sportish.

Does anyone know if there has ever been some reasoning given for that?

The league could have it wrapped up by Memorial Day or the 1st week in June the latest if they would get together with the NHLPA and do away with the bye week and the holiday pauses. Then they wouldn’t have to have so many compressed weeks or back to back games either.

 

[eoin92]

The league could have it wrapped up by Memorial Day or the 1st week in June the latest if they would get together with the NHLPA and do away with the bye week and the holiday pauses. Then they wouldn’t have to have so many compressed weeks or back to back games either.

The compressed schedule sucks. This is going to sound like a first world problem, but I think you may agree. It’s annoying, as a season ticket holder, when there’s a stretch of no games, no games, no games, and then It’s game after game after game.

 

[MJF]

The compressed schedule sucks. This is going to sound like a first world problem, but I think you may agree. It’s annoying, as a season ticket holder, when there’s a stretch of no games, no games, no games, and then It’s game after game after game.

I agree with you. Sometimes the big gap in homestands can be due to arena availability, but I think compressed schedules, 3 games in 5 days, 2 sets of B2Bs in a 7 day period in March is very tiring. It doesn't have to be this way, and I’m not looking at this as a case of only the strong survive.

 

[Doshell Propivo]

The regular season should be no more than 50 games. End the playoffs in early May.

Maybe more NHLers embrace the world championships and we have an annual best on best tourney...

And I know this will never happen.

 

[leeroggy]

The regular season should be no more than 50 games. End the playoffs in early May.

Maybe more NHLers embrace the world championships and we have an annual best on best tourney...

And I know this will never happen.

I'm sure the Player's Union would want a word with you about the 40% salary decreases that would require . . .

 

[Doshell Propivo]

I'm sure the Player's Union would want a word with you about the 40% salary decreases that would require . . .

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HAHA. Yeah I know. Of course this is unrealistic.